This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

The Trump administration.

The names we have so far include National Security Advisor in the White House,

Secretary of State at the State Department.

That's enough to say that we're looking at a Republican administration that's going in a

different direction than we've seen these last years from the Biden administration.

I'm joined by my colleague and friend Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

We're going to comment on the Trump administration in three different countries,

neither friend or foe, both at the same time.

The first will be the People's Republic of China.

The second will be the State of Israel.

The third will be the Russian Federation. The reason we're

commenting is that all three are involved in active warfare. In case of China, its aggression

in East Asia is obvious. There are routine incidents off the Philippines in these last

weeks suggesting that intimidation that used to be directed against Taiwan is now also being

directed against Philippines. Is this war? No. It's a state of political warfare, and I need Gregory's help on the PRC. I begin with what we know.

Gregory, the headlines in Europe this morning, while the Communist Party's leadership has decided a

$1.4 trillion stimulus package, so called, for the municipalities who are debt burdened to the

point of laying off teachers, paying everybody half salary, no bonuses. They're on their

knees across the country. They followed the dictum of the central government to borrow against land, to build and build and build

infrastructure, subways, airports, railroad depots, and nobody came. Nobody showed up. Then some

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